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Paleontologists Unearth Oldest Plant-Eating Dinosaur in Morocco, Rewriting Jurassic History by 2 Million Years
A fossil unearthed in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco is now officially the oldest-known plant-eating cerapodan ...
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Origins of Fossil Fuels: Why Dinosaurs Had Nothing to Do With It—And What Really Lies Beneath
The geological timelines add another layer of evidence against the dinosaur-oil myth. While most dinosaur species roamed the Earth between 230 and 66 million years ago, the organic material ...
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Oldest Cerapodan Ornithischian Dinosaur Discovered in Morocco
Scientists have discovered the oldest known cerapodan dinosaur fossil in Morocco, discovered back 168 million years.
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Dinosaur footprints: how do they form and what can they tell us?
Fossilised bones are some of the most tangible evidence of a dinosaur, but they aren't the only way to study these prehistoric animals. Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of ...
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Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa's Western Cape
Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by geologist and paleontologist Gideon Mantell in England. Dinosaur bones ...
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140M-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks Found for the First Time in South Africa’s Western Cape
Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...
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Mammal Fossils Fill in Missing Piece of the Timeline of Life
Paleontologists analyze concretions—hard orbs of minerals that can collect around material like bone—and discover fossils of mammals that lived on Earth just after an asteroid killed the ...